Palestine

Palestinian United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) employees in Gaza wearing protective masks and gloves due to the COVID-19 pandemic, transport food aid rations to be delivered to refugee family homes rather than distributed at a UN center, on March 31, 2020. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/ APA…

Jeremy LavyGordon Alexander Dyce Lavy was born in Nablus, Palestine. His father was a doctor as well as a clergyman.He was educated at Seaford College and moved on to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew’s, London. After house jobs he did his deferred national service in ……

28 March 2020 - Nickolay Mladenov, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, has praised the coordination between the Israeli and Palestine authorities in reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mr. Mladenov's comments were made during a telephone conversation with the other members of the Middle East Quartet,…

When the leader of Yemen's Houthi rebels recently offered a surprise prisoner exchange to Saudi Arabia, the announcement brought to light the case of dozens of Palestinians on trial in the kingdom, where they are accused of "supporting terrorism". In a televised address to mark the fifth anniversary of the…

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Demonstrating that the technologies of settler colonialism never take a break, Israeli Occupation forces have demolished an emergency clinic set up by Palestinians in a small town inside the Palestinian West Bank, according to the Israeli peace organization, Btselem. It writes, “This morning, Thursday, 26…

“Oh little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie” is no longer just a Christmas carol. It is now the daily experience of all Bethlehemites. An eerie stillness has descended on Bethlehem and the surrounding towns. Virtually every public and private gathering place has been closed on the…

Basma Alsharif’s exhibition here centers around A Philistine (2019), a novella written by the artist that tracks a train journey down the historic Haifa–Beirut–Tripoli line that moves backwards through history at each stop. In the middle of the main gallery, a public reading space offers visitors the opportunity to situate…

In 2018, the Trump administration cut all funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Over five million people in the region rely on the organization for social services, but now their work has become even more crucial in the wake…

ANKARA Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas over the phone on March 21, reaffirming Turkey's support to Palestine in its fight against the novel coronavirus. According to a statement by the Communications Directorate, Erdoğan and Abbas held a phone call to discuss recent developments…

NEW DELHI: India is going ahead with a $2.3 billion (about Rs 15,000 crore) deal to manufacture fleet support vessels (FSVs) in collaboration with a Turkish shipyard following a review after questions were raised on Turkey’s links with Pakistan and the recent diplomatic tiff with the Recep Tayyip Erdogan government.…